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PCRE_GET_STRINGNUMBER(3) FreeBSD Library Functions Manual
NAME PCRE - Perl-compatible regular expressions
SYNOPSIS #include <pcre.h>
int pcre_get_stringnumber(const pcre *code, const char *name);
int pcre16_get_stringnumber(const pcre16 *code, PCRE_SPTR16 name);
int pcre32_get_stringnumber(const pcre32 *code, PCRE_SPTR32 name);
DESCRIPTION This convenience function finds the number of a named substring capturing parenthesis in a compiled pattern. Its arguments are:
code Compiled regular expression name Name whose number is required
The yield of the function is the number of the parenthesis if the name is found, or PCRE_ERROR_NOSUBSTRING otherwise. When duplicate names are allowed (PCRE_DUPNAMES is set), it is not defined which of the numbers is returned by pcre[16|32]_get_stringnumber(). You can obtain the complete list by calling pcre[16|32]_get_stringtable_entries().
There is a complete description of the PCRE native API in the pcreapi page and a description of the POSIX API in the pcreposix page.
PCRE 8.30 24 June 2012 PCRE_GET_STRINGNUMBER(3)